Territory



(No Model.)

J. M. & M. S. BROWNING.

BREEOH LOADING FIRE ARM.-

No. 346,021. Patented July 20', 1886.

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lOlIX M. BROVNING AND MATTHEW S. BROWVNIN G, OF OGDEN CITY, UTAH- TERRITORY, ASSIGXORS TO THE IANY, OF NElV HAVEN, CONNECT \VINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS COM- ICUT.

BREECHzLOAD lNG FIRE-ARM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Applicniilm tiled January 2, 1886.

Patent NO. 346,021, dated July 20,1886.

Serial No. 187,351. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN M. BROWNING and MATTHEW S. BROWNING, of Ogden City,

- in the county oi'VVe'ber and Territory of Utah,

and represent, in

Figure 1, a'sideview, a-portion of the frame broken away, showing a side view of the breech-pieee and the extractor, the breech" piece in the closed position; Fig. 2, the breech I piece and extractor as in the open position, the extractor engaged with the flange of the shell; Fig. 3,;1 horizontal longitudinal section through'the breech-piece, showing a top view of the extractor; Fig. 4, the same as Fig. 3, showing a modification of the extractor.

This'invention relates to an improvement in that class of breechloading fire-arms in which the breech-piece ishung inthe receiver in rear of and below the barrel, and so as to swing backward and downward in opening in substantially a circular path, and is specially adapted to the construction of breech-piece shown and described in our application for Letters Patent, Serial No. 168,738. In this class of arms we find it desirable to arrange the extractor upon the side of the breech-piece instead of making the extractor separate from and operated by the breech-piece. as in the more general construction of this class of arms. In so doing it is necessary that the extractor I shall engage the cart-ridgein substantially the plane of its axis when the breech-piece is in its closed position, and to retain its hold in that position while the breech-piece is turned backward; hence it is necessary that the extractor shall be hung to the breech piece so as to swing in a vertical plane, that it may retain its hold upon the flange oi the cartridge until it be fully withdrawn from its place in the barrel. A lateral movement of the extractor is also necessary,in order that it may ride over it as the breech-piece approaches its closed position.

The object of our invention is a simple construction of extractor which shall possess the two necessary-movements; and it consists in an extractor-hook hung upon the side of the breech-piece, so as to swing up and down iua vertical plane, the pivot of the extractor also permitting a lateral swinging movement, combined with a single spring arrangedto return the said extractor from either its vertical movement or its lateral movement or place of I rest, and as more fully hereinafter described.

It will be unnecessary for us, to give anything more than a general description of the arm.

A represents the receiver, to the forward end of which the barrel B is attached in the usual manner.

C represents the breech-piece, hung upona pivot, D, below the barrel, and so that it may -swing backward and downward in opening.

The bre'echpiece at the pivot is constructed. with a slot, as shown in broken lines, the said slot inclining upward and backward when the breech-piece is in the closed position.

Upon the upper side or back of the breechpiece is a shoulder, E, which engages a corresponding abutment when in its closed posi tion, but from which it is dropped in the first part of the opening movement,beeausc of the slot in the breech-piece at the pivot, that 7 slot passing down over the pivot until it comes to a bearing upon its upper side, and at which time the shoulderE is free from the abutment F, and the breech-piece then ist'urned backward, as if hung upon the pivot in that position. When the breech-piece is returned,and as it arrives at its closed position, the slot in the breech-piece at the pivot permits the breech-piece to rise and bring the shoulder into engagement with the abutment to resist recoil. I

G is the extractor-hook, arranged in a re cess, II, in the side of the breech-piece. Its nose projects beyond the front face of the breech -piece, and is of usual form. It is constructed witlra trunnion, a,-which extends the flange of the cartridge and fall in front of inward into a corresponding recess in the side of the breech-piece, and so that the exib, arranged to bear the extractor. The end of the follower is adapted to bearagainst a fiat shoulder, e, on the 'andthis hook-connection isinside 5 as a pivot, the follower, bearing or otherwise removed,

rear end'of the extractor When'thc extractor is in its up or normal position, .as seen in Fig. 1, the spring-follower thus tending to hold the extractor in that position, but yield for the extractor to be turned. from the position seen in Fig. 1 to that seen in Fig. 2, and so that when the extractor is'free in that turned position the spring-follower will return it to its normal position. I

Iu'order that the extractor may have-a lateral movement'to permit'it to pass over the flange of the cartridge and bring its hook in front of the flange, the inner end of the trunnion is-eonstructed of hook shape, f, to engage a corresponding shoulder in the breech-piece,

the bearing line of the follower, so that while the extract or may be turned outward on' the hook against the rear end of the extractor and outside this pivot-point, will tend to return the extractor; hence when the breeeh-piece is'elosed theextractor may turn outward to pass over the flange, Then the spring will force it inward to engage the flange of the cartridge, and when the breech-piece is opened the extractor, re; taining itshold upon the cartridge, will turn on its pivot until the shell isfully withdrawn, as seen in Fig.2. Then, the shell being ejected the extractor returns under the action of the spring to its normal .position. Thus the single spring-acts upon the extractor both to facilitate its engagement with the flange of the cartridggand to permit "it to retain its hold upon the flange until the breech-piece is so far opened that the shell may be readily removed. 7

'Upon the side of the bre'ech-piece opposite the extractor we apply the usual projecting pivot upon 1. In afirearm substantially such as describcd,thc combination of the breech-piece hung upon an axis below the barrel and adapted to swing bacl'rward and downward from the barrel in opening, an extractor-hook hung in the side of the breech-piece and ar ranged upon a pivot to swing in a vertical plane, and also adapted to swing latcrally that is, in a plane at right angles to the said vertical plane-with a spring-lollower in'rca r of said extractor, adapted to hold the sarid extractor in its normal position, but yield to both the verticaland lateral movement of the extractor, substantially as described.

2. Ina breech-loading fire-arm, the combination of a breech-piece arranged to swing backward and downward in opening, the tractor G, arranged piece, the trunnion,

said extractor constructed with .a a, extending inward into a correspondingreccssin the side ofthe breech-piece.

and also constructed with a hook-like forward projection, f, upon the inner end of the trunnion, to engage a corresponding shoulder in the recess in the breech-piece, and a spring follower arranged to bear against the rear end of the extractor, substantially as and for the purpose described.

JOHN M. BRO\V NING.

MATTHE\V 'S. BROWNING.

\Vitnesses:

\V. L. THOMPSON, D. W. FEL'sHAw.

one side of the breech- 

